LAKE FOREST – Many items cost less than a dollar at 99 Cents Only Stores, but flat-screen televisions typically are not among them.

They will be at 8 a.m. Thursday, though, when the city’s newest 99 Cents Only store at 22631 Lake Forest Drive opens to customers. The first nine in line will have the option of buying a 40-inch flat screen for 99 cents, company spokeswoman Maider Izeta said.

The next 99 customers in line will have the option to buy scooters for 99 cents; the next 99, an upside down tomato planter for 99 cents; and the next 99, an electric can opener for 99 cents, Izeta said.

Other grand-opening specials will be available inside the store, she said.

El Toro High School’s jazz band plans to play at the grand-opening ceremony, said director Dan Fritz, as it did when the 99 Cents Only store opened in Foothill Ranch in 2011.

When that location opened, customers camped out in front of the store for up to two days to take advantage of its grand-opening day deals.

The new 13,000-foot store on Lake Forest Drive will be the third 99 Cents Only store in Lake Forest. The others are on Rockfield Boulevard and on Towne Centre Drive.

In this 2011 Register file photo, hundreds stand in line at the 99 Cents Only Store in Foothill Ranch on opening day. MARK RIGHTMIRE , STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
In this 2011 file photo, the 99 Cents Only store in Foothill Ranch attracted hundreds to its grand-opening event. MARK RIGHTMIRE , STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
In this file photo from 2011, Paul Mucha of Rancho Santa Margarita, left, purchases a television for only 99 cents during the grand opening of the 99 Cents Only store in Foothill Ranch in 2011. Mucha was one of the first nine customers in line. MARK RIGHTMIRE, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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